Electric arc furnaces EAFs that produce steel from scrap metal or green DRI as opposed to blast furnace basic oxygen furnaces BF BOF fueled by coal and iron ore are a compelling example of the type of innovation that can be leveraged by steelmakers to accelerate more sustainable steel production practices
·Each slag cleaning electric furnace hearth area > 175 m 2 installed at the PJSC Nadezhdinsk Metallurgical Plant NMP is equipped with three self sintering power to each slag cleaning electric furnace SCEF is supplied from a separate 30 MVA three phase transformer [] The self sintering Soderberg electrodes of
·Distribution of slag analysis data from EAF heats for carbon steelmaking based on steel scrap 4 different EAFs a d in the system CaO SiO2 FeO MgO 5% Al2O3; lines indicate MgO saturation at 25
·This method of slag cleaning aims at reduction settling and fuming of lead and zinc The Outokumpu and Kivcet processes use dried Table 1 Slag Compositions As Tapped from Shaft Furnaces and After Cleaning In Electric Furnaces Pb Zn Sn Cu Metal Content in Slag wt % Shaft Furnace 6 10 0 H 5 Electric Furnace
·Furthermore this process is highly applicable to steel slag valorization because the remaining heat from the electric arc furnace can be utilized to heat the mixture of slag and acid during the acid baking step Above all it is environmentally sustainable because the wastes obtained can all be recycled in a clean manner
·in a slag cleaning furnace or treated in a minerals processing plant Furthermore high levels of chromium increase the liquidus temperature of the slag resulting in excessive superheating of the matte and severe refractory corrosion in furnaces that are not water cooled Factors that affect the solubility of chromium in the furnace slag
·Traditionally steel has mainly been produced by the blast furnace route which is based on smelting iron ore with coke However this process is extremely energy intensive and results in significant CO2 emissions In response the Electric Arc Furnace EAF route has gained popularity in recent years
·Experiments were carried out in a slag cleaning electric furnace to reduce magnetite in copper smelting slag using petro diesel or biodiesel produced from waste cooking oil and the reduction
·where c x y z t is the concentration of copper I oxide k is the reaction rate constant and A x y z t is the specific surface of contact between the area of bubbles and the slag available as a result of DPM multiphase flow simulation The kinetic Eq 1 is implemented with user defined functions UDF in FLUENT [] The competing reaction of
·Dumping of electric arc furnace dust is an environmental concern and recovery of valuable metals like iron zinc lead from EAFD and safe disposal of residue has got enough attention
·Two thirds of the global nickel output can be attributed to the rotary kiln electric furnace process Due to the high contents of MgO and SiO 2 in laterite a high temperature ∼1600 °C and corresponding energy approximately 14 GJ/t ferronickel are required during the electric furnace smelting This work verifies the feasibility of
·The furnace is tilted backwards and slag is poured out of the furnace through the slag door Removal of the slag eliminates the possibility of P reversion During slag foaming operations C is injected into the slag where it reduces FeO to metallic Fe and in the process produce CO which helps foam the slag
The use of an electric arc furnace for recovery of metal values from slag generated in a secondary copper smelter has been successfully demonstrated and commercialized Blast furnace slag containing about % Cu % Pb % Zn % Ni 40% FeO and opt Ag was retreated to recover better than 75% of the metal values The addition of
·Rotary kiln electric furnace RKEF is a well proven technology for smelting nickel laterite into ferronickel [6] The process consisted of ore drying in a rotary dryer as expressed in reaction
·To recover copper from copper slag a novel slag cleaning method was proposed The thermodynamics and binary phase diagram of FeO SiO 2 were calculated first Then the effects of experimental parameters on the reduction of Fe 3 O 4 recovery of copper and slag cleaning mechanism were results showed that the
·to process complexity as well as lower metal content in concentrates treated relative to those feeds in iron ore processing a large amount of slag is generated from NFM production As an illustration to produce one tonne of copper approximately tonnes of copper slag are generated as a by product material [4] A conservative
·The iron element in electric arc furnace EAF slag is extremely difficult to recycle due to the low specific magnetic susceptibility of the RO phase a solid solution of FeO MgO CaO and MnO Landfilling EAF slag is strictly forbidden for environmental consideration because of poisonous Cr6 leaching The original RO phase could be
·In recent years the recovery of the valuable metals from iron bearing solid waste from steel plant has been one of the most intensive research areas Dumping of electric arc furnace dust is an environmental concern and recovery of valuable metals like iron zinc lead from EAFD and safe disposal of residue has got enough attention
The capacity of this smelter is 300 kt/y it and entails concentrate smelting in one Teniente Converter TC of 4 x 15 m the converting of copper matte in two Peirce Smith converters PSC and the recovery of some valuable metals from slag in one electric slag cleaning furnace SCF Devia Parra Queirolo Sánchez and Wilkomirsky 2019
Depending on the raw materials or production process steel slag can be categorized into basic oxygen furnace slag electric arc furnace slag and ladle furnace slag Hussain and Hussaini 2022 Table S1 presents the constituents of steel slag which primarily consist of calcium silicon aluminum and iron oxides The main components of ladle
·EAF Slag Process The BOS process needs to be fed with molten iron whereas the Electric Arc Furnace EAF can operate with a feed consisting partly or entirely of solid metal such as scrap This gives rise to two significant differences in the slag which is otherwise fairly similar in chemical composition
·Two thirds of the global nickel output can be attributed to the rotary kiln electric furnace process Due to the high contents of MgO and SiO 2 in laterite a high temperature ∼1600 °C and corresponding energy approximately 14 GJ/t ferronickel are required during the electric furnace smelting This work verifies the feasibility of
·The smelting and converting El Teniente process for copper concentrates as well as slag cleaning furnace technologies to treat slags coming out from the El Teniente furnaces are widely applied
·A significant source of copper losses from pyrometallurgical copper extraction is attributed to dissolved and entrained copper in discarded slag Entrained copper can be recovered via pyrometallurgical slag cleaning in a settling furnace where the slag viscosity and copper droplet size distribution CDSD are critical parameters Reduced
·The copper ISASMELT process has evolved over more than a quarter of a century and is considered mainstream with single furnaces producing more than 340 000 tpa of copper in matte Over the last 30 years the ISASMELT technology has been developed into a process suited to various roles in the non ferrous smelting industry